Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] been [verb] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The appropriate comparison should have been made by following through a cohort who would have been exposed by the accident . |
| 2 | The court considered that the accused should have been convicted of obtaining property by deception . |
| 3 | To is required with the infinitive in order to represent this movement from a before-position when the event was not yet realized — at which point , according to the speaker , it could and perhaps should have been prevented from occurring — to an after-position corresponding to its actual realization . |
| 4 | According to Friends of the Earth , at least six of those that won should have been disqualified through failing to meet the EC 's virus standards . |
| 5 | The 50-year-old , winner of 61 tournaments worldwide , said that his interpretation of the rules was that he should have been disqualified for signing an incorrect score card . |
| 6 | It is realised now that your permission should have been obtained before disclosing such information and if any teacher does not wish this to happen in the future please notify the NDO — — without delay — hopefully with alternative suggestion for publicising your class . |
| 7 | Even before he was consecrated , and perhaps as soon as he was elected , at a moment when , by ordinary rules of prudence , he should have been thinking of equipping himself with all the forms of expert knowledge required by his new position , he chose one of the group of English monks to be his closest and most constant companion . |
| 8 | Councillors complained that the full council should have been consulted before planning permission was given . |
| 9 | Although Folly knew her thoughts should have been occupied in absorbing a myriad pieces of information about the running of the shop , somehow , inevitably , they would slip away . |
| 10 | They maybe should have been booked for continuing to put the ball in the net … aswell as Lukic maybe not trying to save ( as if that made a difference ; - ) The Wallace incident at maine rd however is a different story . |
| 11 | The crew were kept occupied completing the many jobs that should have been finished before putting out . |
| 12 | But it must have been based upon replicating entities with power over their own future . |
| 13 | Surely an animal of this bulk , it was argued , must be partly supported by water , and their relatively inconsequential teeth must have been adapted for chewing on the kind of soft , luxuriant vegetation that flourishes in and around swamps . |
| 14 | However small they were , such payments must have been thought worth collecting . |
| 15 | Better results might have been achieved by searching for pristine copies of the original 78s . |
| 16 | As he walked back down the cul-de-sac McLeish found a demarcation line , so precise it might have been achieved by running a tape across the road , where the commercial element stopped and flat-fronted , early Victorian terraced houses , took over . |
| 17 | Some fifty successful local wage claims apart , and despite Wilson 's optimism in his Presidential Address at the Annual Conference of the union in September 1916 , seamen might have been forgiven for concluding that patriotism had done very little for their cause . |
| 18 | While ELT publishing was still in its youth — in the days when both toes and fingers were needed to count the number of UK ELT publishers — one might have been forgiven for believing there was just a trace of the treasure hunt in its approach to the stern commercial discipline of market development . |
| 19 | One might have been forgiven for believing that the answer was to be determined by the label adopted by Parliament in creating the body in question . |
| 20 | The combined maps issued by the three tramway companies used a symbol to indicate through services , under the description ‘ Services are operated ’ , and the intending passenger might have been forgiven for expecting to see Company 's cars working on them . |
| 21 | It was n't a four-letter word , although when one uttered it , one might have been forgiven for thinking that it was . |
| 22 | In the light of this amended agreement , the British LTA might have been forgiven for thinking that it had pre-empted any legal action over its former agreement , which it had sent to Brussels for consideration as long ago as September 1990 . |
| 23 | Such was the enthusiasm generated by the thousands of kids at the game that a passer-by might have been forgiven for thinking that either Take That or New Kids On The Block were performing at Ibrox rather than Scotland 's football team . |
| 24 | With so much good will in the air one might have been forgiven for thinking that there were no differences worth talking about . |
| 25 | With Maisie still keeping the regulation distance between the two of them , he almost ran after the headmaster , swinging his arms crazily and taking strides so long that a casual observer might have been forgiven for assuming that he , too , was practising the art of Islamic dancing . |
| 26 | Nearly a century and a half later Alexander II might have been forgiven for feeling an even greater degree of disappointment . |
| 27 | It is conceivable that if an agreement had been signed and if henceforth Anglo-American relations had been bathed in sweetness and light , arrangements might have been made for pooling atomic weapons production . |
| 28 | However , from a social psychological perspective , which seeks to examine attitudinal structure , it is necessary to recognize those implicit features whose seeds might have been nurtured to flowering under other circumstances . |
| 29 | In relation to the concept of a new settlement the Department very firmly has an open mind at a time , we 've heard many statements drawing on the various P P G s , and from some of them you might have been excused for thinking that the Department had indeed turned it turned its back on the idea of a n new settlements , knowing that sort of situation we felt it appropriate before the start of this examination to sound out the residents of two Marscham Street |
| 30 | He might have been talking about weekending on the moon . |